Context:

What is man believing/doing?:

tempting Jesus again, this time a Scribe of the Pharisees on points of the law

What is making man to believe/do as he is doing?:

word that the Sadducce attempt had been silenced

Man's patience:

(conjecture - Superiority? Why leave to the Sadducee what one should/could have done for themselves?)

Jesus keeping of commandment:

Loving the Lord God with all of His heart/soul/mind and all peoples in the manner intended all along

Jesus keeping of faith:

The attack seems innocuous on the surface, but the reply in man's present state is anything but. Love in our mind is very nebulous and self directed. If Jesus really loves His neighbor, why does He put them in such division and controversy and danger? If He really loves God that much, why does He speak so against the leaders of God's own church? If He is obedient to either commonly accepted foundational commands, commands which He Himself has already acknowledge as being the greatest, why does He break so many traditions born out of the learned interpretations of the Law itself? The answer of course is that it all has become so far corrupted from it's original intent, but how do you tell it's corrupter's that without angrily contradicting the Law you uphold yourself? The way Jesus intends to approach it from here on out is that way?

Jesus' patience:

Silenced does not mean that it all did not have it's effect on the support He had going into this flurry. The methodology against Him has been very clear and predictable, in part likely why He spent so little time ahead of this in Jerusalem, nonetheless the attacks have accomplished their goals.

Jesus once painted a picture of those receiving the word with joy/anon till pressure was brought up against it. This is an illustration for us of how that relentless pressure operates. The Word held true to the truth throughout but so many didn't have the heart for it. The pressure did not come all at once with intellectual prowess and truth of it's own, it came with disgust disguised as tolerance, the appearance of being wrongly offended, the promoting the anticipation of national suffering or unforetold dread. All of this what the carnal heart is easily redirected by. This is how truth can be made to look even out of the best of models. This is how quickly perceptions and matters can be turned about. For all that they have been able to do against Him however, everything still remains in God's hands.

Notes:

How could two men take a fairly simple hinged set of commands and end at two opposite conclusions of it? The scribe would begin at the entry point that the law (and to a nominal concern the prophets) is the consummate fulfillment of this Love; fulfill all the law and you have therein fulfilled all love. The other approach is from the entry point of the law having not ever been nor ever now being fulfilled outside of Christ; the law making offense known, the prophets making both God's persistent insistence and His acceptable remedy Christ Jesus known, love then on our part being our response to His much greater Love. One doorway is hinged inside out the other outside in, one being exited by man the other entered by Jesus.

A third more populated direction exists, that of by simply loving whomever and whatsoever in whatever way personally afforded, therein is the intent of the law is fulfilled (or need for bypassed). Jesus though was careful to include "and the prophets" to the indication of fulfillment. When did the prophets ever say "just get along with everybody", "just desire happy thoughts for all people", "peace hugs and kisses" or "tolerance above all"? They never did. They always pointed to Christ and His love. This doorway doesn't even hang on a hinge because it only needs to stand propped up against one's easily purchased/constructed self justification.

Key Messages:

What does this say about our present condition?

True love, which is heavily reliant on truth, is what everyone claims themselves to have, but without absolute truth there is no observable measure to gauge such claims by. If God is nebulous, so then is heart/soul/mind, so then is neighbor, so then is commandment, so then is love, so then are we too.

Perception in this state is every bit of truth. The perception of actual truth is limited by the expectation of what truth is to look like. The expectation of truth is typically simpleminded and self constructed so as to be easy prey for skilled meddlers.